Day: November 15, 2023

Business Local News

3.48 trillion baht budget for 2024 due for cabinet nod

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A 3.48 TRILLION BAHT budget for fiscal 2024 will be submitted for cabinet approval next week, a government official said today (Nov.15). Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is scheduled to chair next Tuesday’s cabinet meeting to pass the 2024 budget bill prepared by the Budget Bureau and then forward it to […]

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Life

Cash-strapped woman desperately selling car to marry again

  ATTRACTING a lot of attention in Rayong today (Nov. 15) is an unusual sign taped to the rear of a sedan parked by the roadside saying the owner urgently wants to sell this vehicle being short of cash to marry again, Sanook.com said. The sign, put up by Ms. Angsumalin (surname and age withheld), […]

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Local News

Online loan shark scammers nabbed in Bangkok, nine provinces

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF SUSPECTED loan shark racketeers has been rounded up in Bangkok and nine provinces, police said today (Nov.15). Central Investigation Bureau Commissioner Pol.Lt.Gen. Jirabhop Bhuridej announced a total of 13 suspected online scammers providing illegal loans with skyrocketing interest rates have been separately arrested by the police in […]

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Business Local News

No Plan B for digital wallet campaign: Julapun

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER Julapun Amornvivat said today (Nov.15) the Pheu Thai-led government has no such thing as a Plan B which might otherwise be applied in lieu of the contentious digital wallet campaign. Julapun was apparently responding to the advice earlier given by Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulathon that the […]

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